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Holly Herndon

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Holly Herndon (born Tennessee, 1980s) is an American composer, musician, and sound artist based in San Francisco, California. She has released two albums on the record label RVNG Intl. She often uses the visual programming language Max/MSP to create custom instruments and vocal processes, and has collaborated with artists such as Reza Negarestani. Her 2014 single “Chorus” was named Best New Track by Pitchfork, who stated “few artists have managed to meld the dark thump of techno with the intricate constructions of post-minimalist new music quite like Holly Herndon”.
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Tutto sommato, mi sembra partire da certe performance vocali di Laurie Anderson, quelle più legate alla canzone piuttosto che al teatro, tipo O’ Superman, per intendersi.

Qui ascoltiamo proprio Chorus del 2014.

Sarai il mio specchio?

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Lui è del 1942, lei del 1947, la canzone è del 1965. Tanto vecchi quanto affascinanti.

Update 4/7

Effettivamente, la grandezza di Lou Reed sta nella capacità di cantare sempre la stessa canzone. Saranno 40 anni che Lou scrive brani su due accordi, tipicamente tonica e dominante, qualche volta un’altra combinazione, e ci canta sopra nello stesso modo, a volte con le stesse parole.


Ill be your mirror
Reflect what you are, in case you dont know
Ill be the wind, the rain and the sunset
The light on your door to show that you’re home

When you think the night has seen your mind
That inside youre twisted and unkind
Let me stand to show that you are blind
Please put down your hands
cause I see you

I find it hard to believe you dont know
The beauty that you are
But if you dont let me be your eyes
A hand in your darkness, so you wont be afraid

When you think the night has seen your mind
That inside youre twisted and unkind
Let me stand to show that you are blind
Please put down your hands
cause I see you

O Superman

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Il web magazine dello Smithsonian American Art Museum ha pubblicato una breve intervista con Laurie Anderson che ricorda anche il momento in cui è diventata una star con O Superman negli anni ’80.

La storia è divertente:

I didn’t know anything about the pop world. I was just an artist in New York and I had made a record that I was distributing by mail order. People would call me up on the phone and say, “Can I get this record?” I would go over to a carton, pick it up and go to the post office with it. I had pressed 1,000 records of something I had done on an NEA grant called O Superman. Then I got a call one afternoon from a guy in Britain who said “I’d like to order some records. I’ll need 40,000 Thursday and 40,000 more on Monday.” So I said, “Right. Okay. I’ll get right back to you.”

I called Warner Brothers and said, “Listen, I need to press a bunch of records, could you help me with it?” And they said, “That’s not how we do things at Warner Brothers Records. What we do is you sign an eight-record deal.” And I was like, “What?”

So that’s what I did, because I thought that could be interesting. I tried very hard not to be seduced by that kind of world. I had a lot of fun with it. You get out of a car and everyone is screaming, it was just funny for me. They were like, “Can I get your autograph? Oh my god!” and “It’s really you.” For me I felt like an anthropologist.

E visto che c’è su You Tube, tanto vale rivederselo